NOUN | plant | carline thistle | a thistle of the genus Carlina |
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Meaning | A thistle of the genus Carlina. | |
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Member of | Carlina, genus Carlina | genus of Mediterranean thistles |
Narrower | common carline thistle, Carlina vulgaris | Eurasian thistle growing in sand dunes and dry chalky soils |
stemless carline thistle, Carlina acaulis | stemless perennial having large flowers with white or purple-brown florets nestled in a rosette of long spiny leaves hairy beneath | |
Broader | thistle | Any of numerous plants of the family Compositae and especially of the genera ... / genera Carduus and Cirsium and Onopordum having prickly-edged leaves |
Spanish | cardo ajonjero |
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